Erik Moeller wrote:
I proposed to *enforce the existing ban* on Lir. For this, the threshold of annoyance should arguably be much lower. Furthermore, Lir's number of edits is excessive by any standard. At which point does it get too much? 100 edits per page? 1000?
I agree with everyone on this. :-)
What I mean is, yes, of course, merely editing an article "too many" times is not a bannable offense. It's discourteous, but probably happens because people don't really realize that it's discourteous.
And I also agree -- for people already banned, all the thresholds of annoyance are set a lot lower. Like, to zero.
Here's the thing -- let's say someone gets banned for ongoing annoying behavior. And then, upon being banned, they feel stupid and embarassed. (Well, work with me here, it _could_ happen.) But they want to work on wikipedia. So they come back under a new username and actually behave completely. There's nothing we can do about that, and it isn't a problem anyway.
But, what we don't want to encourage is multiple attempts by banned persons to come back again and again under different usernames.
--Jimbo